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Migration, Religion, and Residential Segregation at the Urban Level : te Case of Muslim Migrants in Rome and Milan
No full textThis article investigates residential segregation at the intraurban level of migrants in two Italian cities, Rome and Milan, considering religion as a point of reference in light of its pivotal role in terms of identity references for many migrants. The article focuses in particular on Muslim migrants—due to both the magnitude of their presence and complex issues related to their settlement in Italian cities. The analysis shows a low level of intraurban residential segregation of Muslim migrants in both cities, with some relevant differences related to national subgroups (e.g., a higher concentration for people coming from Bangladesh and Pakistan), so that religion seems not yet to be a main driver of residential choice for Muslim migrants. In light of both the low level of segregation of Muslim migrants and some features of Italian urban policies on migration and religion, we argue that residential concentration can currently play a beneficial role in terms of the insertion of migrants in Italian cities and fulfillment of some of their needs (e.g., availability of minority places of worship)
Making home at the borders of citizenship: Migrants, home, and (il)legality
No full textA growing literature at the intersection of citizenship and border studies have theorized borders as filters drawing distinctions through socio-cultural, legal and administrative constructs of deservingness extending from the territorial “entry gates” into the “soft inside” of citizenship (Bonizzoni 2016, 2020; Chauvin and Garcés-Mascareñas 2012, 2014; Gargiulo 2017, 2021; Horton and Heyman 2020; Yuval-Davis, Wemyss and Cassidy 2019). These socio-legal constructs produce a wide array of categories – EU-citizen/TCN, legal/illegal; refugee/economic/family migrants – stratifying migrants’ access to citizenship rights, including the right to housing (Andersen, Turner and Søholt 2013; Jacobsen 2006; Morris 2002). As migrants’ access to (private and public) housing is heavily mediated by the possess (or the lack) of a certain status, the latter can heavily constraint migrants’ housing choices regarding where to live, for how long and with whom. This includes both vulnerable and especially protected groups hosted in reception centres (e.g. unaccompanied minors, asylum seekers and refugees, trafficked women...) as well as undocumented migrants pushed to live in camps, squats or in the informal housing market (Agier 2011; Campesi 2018).
At the same time, the possess (or the lack) of “adequate” and “proper” housing represents a key element informing policies and bureaucrats’ decisions that can bear relevant consequences for migrant’s (il)legality and citizenship rights, more broadly. In other terms, homelessness, precarious and informal housing can turn into a key trait of the “deserving” (un)citizen, jeopardizing a wide array of status-related assessments and procedures, including naturalization, family reunification and legalization opportunities.
As argued by Walters (2004) under domopolitics, migrants are “guests”, who must be monitored and disciplined to ensure “good” behaviour. This chapter, drawing on an extended and cross-national review of studies on immigration, home and (il)legality, aims to show how this efforts extend into the private space of home to produce inclusionary/exclusionary public outcomes in terms of bordered (un)citizenship
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Permeability plasma factors in nephrotic syndrome: more than one factor, more than one inhibitor.
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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